The Year Ahead: 2012

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Last year our organization adopted new mission and vision statements to better and more boldly state what we do and how we envision our community’s response to the critical need for more people to get involved in our life-saving work. Our mission proudly states that we save lives and offer hope and healing through excellence in organ and tissue donation.

This year is a year of hope. It is one where we are finding new and creative ways to meet the demands of our life-saving mission. At the beginning of January we were honored to launch a new program in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety aimed at increasing the number of registered donors in Minnesota. The program, called “You and $2,” provides the opportunity for Minnesotans to contribute $2 to organ, eye and tissue donation on their driver’s license or state ID application. We know that education is the key to encouraging more people to say yes to donation.

We strive to provide compassionate care and hope and healing for the donor family both at the very emotional moments surrounding the death and in the months and years that follow. Our Donor Family Advisory Council, comprised

of family members from throughout our region, will help guide us in our goal this year of achieving at least a 90% satisfaction rate among donor family members. The council will also be involved in helping us explore new opportunities to support and connect families across our vast service area.

Donation agencies throughout the country will be working together this year to share stories of people who provide hope to those touched by donation and transplantation. This “I am Hope” campaign is part of a larger campaign to register 20 million new organ, eye and tissue donors in the nation. In this report you’ll see the faces of people in our community who are hope to all of us.

This strong beginning will propel us forward to an exciting year where we will achieve much towards our mission of saving lives. It is my hope that you can see yourself in our work and the difference you can make by engaging in this incredible mission.

568 organ and tissue donors and their families who

so generously shared the gift of life in 2011.

Gratitude This report is dedicated to the

From the CEO Marsha Shotley

Chair, Board of Directors

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Minnesotans can support donation by registering to be an organ,

eye and tissue donor and, new this year, by contributing $2 toward

education about organ, eye and tissue donation on their driver’s

license or state ID card application. “You and $2” is made possible

by passage of a bi-partisan bill during the 2011 legislative session

and is modeled after other states with similar programs and strong

donor designation rates.

While Minnesotans donate at a higher rate than the national average

– 60% of adults in the state versus 42% of adults nationwide – we

know we can do more. Our work is not done until we end deaths on

the transplant waiting list and ensure a transplant for everyone in

need. Visit www.Life-Source.org for more information on “You

and $2” and www.DonateLifeMN.org to register as a donor.

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You and $2: Education Saves Lives

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Every day during 2012 a story will be shared by one

of the donation agencies in the country to illustrate the

hope that each one of us provides by engaging in the

life-saving mission of organ, eye and tissue donation.

Look for stories from Minnesota in April, North Dakota

in July and South Dakota in December. You can join

the “I am Hope” campaign by sharing these inspiring

stories with your personal and professional networks.

Join our networks on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter

by visiting our website at www.Life-Source.org.

National campaign to add 20 million new registered donors in 2012

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Last year LifeSource conducted community surveys in South Dakota to better inform our

outreach efforts in the state. We were interested in learning why non-donors have not yet

taken the steps to register and how we can best reach those people with the information

they need to make a positive decision about donation. Our results show that we may be

able to increase the number of registered donors in the state by sharing key messages that

speak to some misinformation among non-donors. During 2012 we will be reassessing

our advertising and outreach campaigns to adopt these messages and help provide the

information South Dakotans need to register as donors.

South Dakota Surveys Inform New Outreach

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The gifts of donation given by children are some of the most precious gifts. Often, children

who are waiting for transplant need to receive their organ from another child. LifeSource has

been working on ways to increase the number of transplantable organs given with love by

children and their families to help save more lives.

In 2011 we worked with physicians, intensivists and transplant centers to develop pathways

to guide our donation coordinators in strategies to optimize organ function in pediatric

donors. In July, a team from our donation service area, including partners from Sanford

Health, Mayo Clinic and Rapid City Regional Hospital, attended a pediatric organ donation

summit. Last year, 12 children at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic received

transplants from LifeSource donors. This year, we continue to focus on maximizing donation

options for pediatric donors so that more children have the opportunity to save lives.

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Brian, organ and tissue donor

Victor, organ and tissue donor

Kirstin, tissue donor

Karishma, liver recipient

Nikki, waiting for lung transplant

Austin, liver recipient

Each of us provides hope to the people in our community

touched by donation and transplantation.

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2011Snapshot2011 2010

Tissue Donors 495 470

Organ Donors 160 149

Organ Transplants from LifeSource Donors 526 500

LifeSource Donors * Some donors gave the gift of both organs and tissues, which means the number of organ and tissue donors adds up to a number greater than the total number of LifeSource donors.

LifeSource ORGAN DONATION

Rates VS.

National ORGAN DONATION

Rates

LifeSource % National %

2011 �0 77*

2010 77 75

2009 7� 74

200� 75 71

2007 77 71

2011

3,144,014

2009

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200� 2,�13,14�

2007 2,644,312

* 61% of adults in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are registered donors

For more information about our 2011 accomplishments and a list of our 2011 donor hospitals and medical examiner offices, please visit our website at www.Life-Source.org.

Designated DONORS

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2010

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Board of DirectorsMarsha Shotley, Chair

Donor and Recipient Family Member

Scott Anderson, Vice Chair

Mirabelle Management, LLC

Keith Fahnhorst, Secretary/

Treasurer

RBC Wealth Management; Transplant

Recipient

Brock Nelson, Immediate Past Chair

Regions Hospital

William Payne, MD, Medical Director

University of Minnesota Medical

Center, Fairview

Tim Bjork

Transplant Recipient

Sara Criger

St. Joseph’s Hospital

Frazier Eales, MD

Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Judge Gail Hagerty

North Dakota District Judge

Bruce King

St. Olaf College; Transplant Recipient

Marjorie Nelson

Donor and Recipient Family Member

Chad Richardson, MD

Hennepin County Medical Center

Mark Ritchie, MN Secretary of State

State of Minnesota, Donor Family

Member

Charles Rosen, MD

Mayo Clinic

Reverend C. John Steer

Autumn Ridge Church; Donor Family

Member

Susan Gunderson, Ex-Officio

LifeSource

Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Heart, Kidney

The Transplant Center at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Heart, Lung, Kidney, Liver, Pancreas, Intestine, Islets

Hennepin County Medical Center

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Kidney

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Heart, Lung, Kidney, Liver, Pancreas

North Dakota Transplant Center

Bismarck, North Dakota

Kidney

Sanford Transplant Services

Fargo, North Dakota

Kidney, Pancreas

Avera McKennan Transplant Institute

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Kidney, Pancreas

Sanford Transplant Center

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Kidney

Partner Transplant Centers

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